Tuesday 27 September
13:30 – 14:00 Registration, Refreshements
14:00 – 14:15 Welcome address. N. Walton, IoA Cambridge, MWGAIA PI .
14:15 – 15:00 Gaia Data Release 3, an overview A. Vallenari, Padova Astronomical Observatory, INAF, Italy
15:00 – 15:45 AGIS, DR3 astrometry and various calibration issues. A. Bombrun, European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Overview of MW/LMC interaction E. Vasiliev, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
17:00 – 17:20 Chemical abundance distributions of dwarf galaxies in Milky Way-mass systems A.S. Font, Liverpool John Moores Univesity, UK
17:20 – 17:40 Study of internal kinematics of the SMC using Gaia DR3 data. A. Strantzalis, University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
Wednesday 28 September
09:30 – 10:15 Magellanic Clouds – Stellar populations M. Romero-Gomez, University of Barcelona, Spain
10:15 – 10:35 Star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds using DBSCAN with Gaia DR3 data D. Lazarou, University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
10:35 – 10:55 Potential of Gaia to constrain Primordial Black Holes using astrometric microlensing H. Verna, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 The Milky Way dwarf galaxies view through Gaia G. Thomas, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain
12:00 – 12:45 Impact of Gaia data on studies of the Andromeda System N. Martin, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:00 Gaia and the distance ladder V. Ripepi, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, INAF, Italy
15:00 – 15:20 An overview of the extragalactic content of Gaia DR3 C. Bailer-Jones, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany
15:20 – 15:40 Redshifts of unresolved galaxies with Gaia I. Bellas-Vellidis, National Observatory of Athens, D. Hatzidimitriou, University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
15:40 – 16:00 Towards an improved semi-empirical lilbrary for UGC. Construction of galactic spectra using the Pegase.3 code and comparison with SDSS. P. Patsonis, E. Livanou, University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Hands on exercises for the use of Gaia DR3
20:00 Conference Dinner (details will be announced soon)
Thursday 29 September
09:30 – 10:15 Gaia explores the deep Universe : morphology of galaxies and host galaxies of quasars and search for gravitational lenses C. Ducourant, University of Bordeaux, France
10:15 – 11:00 The Celestial Reference Frame F. Mignard, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, CNRS, France
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:50 Optical polarization properties of AGN with significant VLBI-Gaia offsets D. Blinov, Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
11:50 – 12:10 Variation of the stellar initial mass function in and between galaxies S. Dib, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
12:10 – 12:30 Characteristic Emission of Star-Forming High Redshift Galaxies: Testing the IR Template. J. Bogdanoska, Institute of physics, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
12:30 – 12:50 Multi-wavelength study of the environment of AGNs using XMM-Newton and Gaia data, Ε. Koulouridis, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
12:50– 13:10 Comparison of Gaia BP/RP spectra with Low dispersion Spectroscopy photographic Sky Surveys, R. Hudek, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
13:10– 13:30 Summary – Closing Remarks, N. Walton, IoA, Cambridge, UK